Re: DNS Server Setup?
They belong to Exodus Communications. The support
people I've spoken to reckon that people must be doing
log analyses that require massive amounts of reverse
lookups or something. I'm not too concerned about
their servers, though, since I believe everybody and
their mother uses them.
I really thought that it was time to make my own
(which I still haven't been able to get up, despite a
whole day of tinkering :[ )
-Christian
--- Mike Wills <mwills@mnic.net> wrote:
> I believe the secondaries can take over as master if
> the master is down. Thus he is setting up a
> secondary.
>
> The first thing I would do is find out why the two
> computers you have now "freeze up". Is there a
> certain job that bogs the system down? A sync? I
> would watch the logs, because two DNS servers should
> be more than enough for most corporations, ISPs,
> etc.
>
> As far as setting one up...I wish I knew myself. I
> haven't tried yet.
>
> > as far as i know, thats just not how it works.
> every dns asks above
> > itself for those that it's not resposeable for,
> and usually keeps the info
> > as soon as it knows another one though.
> >
> > anyone know how to setup your own stand alone dns
> server? like the ones
> > that most isps seem to have that take time for the
> info to filter down
> > from the root servers?
> >
> > --
> > Forrest English
> > http://truffula.net
> >
> > "When we have nothing left to give
> > There will be no reason for us to live
> > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > You will have nothing left to use"
> > -Fugazi
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm mistaken ... but my understanding was
> that
> > > my DNS server would just pull information from
> the
> > > "Root Servers" or something.
> > >
> > > You see, currently, I have two DNS servers that
> > > resolve our requests and such. They're pretty
> fast
> > > and everything except that about three times per
> day
> > > they freeze up for about two-five minutes.
> During
> > > that time, no one in my office can look at
> websites
> > > properly.
> > >
> > > I don't want to be in a position where the big
> DNS
> > > servers are down and someone looks up a
> brand-new
> > > non-cached site from my little DNS server.
> Since my
> > > little one doesn't know where the new site is
> ... it'd
> > > have to refer to the big ones ... which would
> both me
> > > down.
> > >
> > > Does this make any sense?
> > >
> > > -Christian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net>
> wrote:
> > > > you need to setup some other dns servers for
> yours
> > > > to reffer to if they
> > > > don't have the info. what you want to do is
> called
> > > > a cahching dns server
> > > > for a reason. it keeps places already visited
> in a
> > > > local cache. but,
> > > > you don't have a record of all of the sites on
> the
> > > > entire internet right
> > > > away.
> > > >
> > > > so, follow the howto as best as you can. but,
> at
> > > > the very least.... add
> > > > some other dns's that you reffer to. it's in
> um...
> > > > named.conf or
> > > > somthing like that in /etc/bind
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Forrest English
> > > > http://truffula.net
> > > >
> > > > "When we have nothing left to give
> > > > There will be no reason for us to live
> > > > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > > > You will have nothing left to use"
> > > > -Fugazi
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I found an easy document on the homepage of
> > > > RedHat. Search there for
> > > > > it. If you want to take a look at my files
> (which
> > > > still do not work
> > > > > perfectly for every computer on the world),
> mail
> > > > me privately. It is
> > > > > really simple to set up a simple server.
> > > > >
> > > > > Greetzm
> > > > > Sebastiaan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS
> > > > server for
> > > > > > users in my office. I've looked at all
> the
> > > > HOWTOs out
> > > > > > there and I couldn't make sense of them.
> Let me
> > > > > > explain what I want to set up.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You know like in Windows (or
> /etc/resolv.conf
> > > > for us)
> > > > > > when you specify a "Primary DNS Server"
> ... like
> > > > so
> > > > > > that when you type in www.yahoo.com the
> proper
> > > > page
> > > > > > comes up? I want to set up one of those
> types
> > > > of
> > > > > > machines. I believe such a server is
> called a
> > > > > > "resolver" or a "resolving and caching
> server"
> > > > or
> > > > > > something ... please correct me if I'm
> wrong,
> > > > please.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, I used dselect to install bind and
> bind-doc
> > > > and
> > > > > > stuff ... that was with Progeny. It
> didn't work
> > > > and I
> > > > > > was tired of the way the machine was
> working so
> > > > I just
> > > > > > set up Potato and had it set up the
> machine as a
> > > > "DNS
> > > > > > Server" (a setup option).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "ps -le | more" (also "ps -le | grep
> named")
> > > > show me
> > > > > > that named is up and running.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my
> /etc/resolv.conf,
> > > > lynx
> > > > > > will not be able to go to
> http://www.google.com
> > > > (with
> > > > > > a known, working DNS server it works just
> fine,
> > > > though
> > > > > > ... I know this machine can get on a
> network and
> > > > > > everything). Also, when I specify the IP
> of this
> > > > > > machine (192.168.10.249) as my "Primary
> DNS
> > > > Server" in
> > > > > > Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now, I know, this is a
> right-out-of-the-box
> > > > setup of
> > > > > > bind, but I can't figure out what I need
> to
>
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